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- Reunion Weekend A c a d e m y M a g a z i n e
- Tom Hoster ’68 (pictured on Page 16)
- Andrew Bowman ’16, Dave Carruthers ’48, Alex Lichen ’16 Atticus Lee ’16, Jack Stephan ’48 Miriam Knopp 16, Sarah Burns 03
- Nicole Beraud ’16, Howard Byer ’48, Christina Lee ’16 Fall 2008 15 Reunion Weekend
- Jessica Hile ’16, Pete Webster ’58, Sarah Campbell ’16 .Caroline Aronowitz ’16, John LaMonte ’53 Lis Kleszczelski ’03, Sydney Brault ’16
- Jim Stahl, Nyssa Pymer, John Detrick ’53 Trip Lazarus ’72, Chip Porter ’72, Rob Hanover ’72, Billy Shaw ’73
- Bob Mathews ’68, Kevin Morrin Dick Evans ’58, Julia Chester ’16, Tom Hoster ’68
- Alumni News A c a d e m y M a g a z i n e Dear Fellow Alumni
- Stephen Wittmann ’67
- Charles (Rocky) Saxbe ’65
- Farewell to Alumni Relations Director Meredith Levine ’99
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’16 7. 1983 class reunion at Scott Halliday’s family party barn John Wuorinen ’80, along with Student Council President Austin Bening ’09 and Vice President Alex Johnson ’09. Festivities then moved back outdoors to the Senior Quad for the Former Faculty Re- ception, where alumni were able to reconnect with their former teachers, coaches and ad- ministrators. The mingling continued into the dining hall for the 26th annual Charlie David Dinner, marking the first time that Reunion Weekend activities coincided with the athletic department’s biggest bash of the year. Then, prior to kickoff of the home foot- ball game, alumni gathered in the theater lobby with friends and family to honor
into the Athletics Hall of Fame (see page 17 for more details and photos). The evening ended with individual class parties, followed by the sixth annual OSU Tail- gate Saturday afternoon before the Buckeyes’ win over Purdue. More individual class par- ties Saturday night concluded another suc- cessful Reunion Weekend for Columbus Academy.
If you enjoy seeing the photos, visit colum- busacademy.org to view the complete online galleries! Reunion Weekend: Brings 12
Fall 2008 Reunion Weekend A c a d e m y M a g a z i n e Alumni Back to Campus 13
5. 1. 2. 6. 3. 7. T he Reunion Buddy program began at Columbus Academy in 2001 to connect alumni with current CA students. Fifth-graders were the logical choice for present-day ambassadors since they were already studying the school’s history in their social studies classes. • The program begins early each fall with letters from fifth-graders to alumni from the class years celebrating reunions in the five and 10-year increments. This year, for instance, all alumni from graduation classes ending in either 3 or 8 should have received a letter from a current Academy fifth-grader explaining his or her interests and asking the alumni for their memories about the school. The letter also serves as an invitation for alumni to meet their fifth-grade “buddy” at a gathering during Reunion Weekend. • Many of the alumni eagerly write back and share their fondest – and often humorous – memories. Usually 50-60 alumni are able to meet their Reunion Buddy and are treated to a tour of campus by their new friends. The tours end in Schoedinger Theatre, where the fifth grade – along with some help from current and former faculty members – perform “The Academy Stream,” which is a short play about the school’s history. • According to Assistant Headmaster Erich Hunker ’81, who brought the program to Academy, the buddies event has been a huge success since its inception eight years ago. “I’ve had a number of alumni comment to me that the Reunion Buddies program is the single best event that we’ve done. Having a fifth-grader give them a tour of campus allows them to see the school in a fresh new way, and it encourages them to come back for a visit.” • An ex- cellent example of the connections being made through the Buddies program can be seen in this letter from Tom Hoster ’68 (pictured on Page 16) to his “buddy” Julia Chester from the Class of 2016 (edited for space): Fall 2008 14
Dear Julia, I am happy to respond to your request for information about the Academy when I was there. As you know, I am heading towards my 40th reunion from the Academy. Forty years is a long time, but it does not necessarily seem that long to me. Many memories of the Academy are quite fresh in my mind. Almost without exception, they are fond memories. More than anything, what I remember about the Academy was the rigorous academics, which has served me so well in my career; the athletics, which al- lowed me to fully participate in two sports; and the intimacy that comes with small classes. My class was the last to graduate from the Nelson Road campus. The Nelson Road campus was a rambling set of buildings built over many years, the start of which was a roadside inn, with various other buildings tacked on as expansion demanded and money allowed: a Chapel, a Lower School building, a Middle School building, locker rooms, a pool and a gymnasium. The “physical plant” at the Academy I attended was pretty ramshackle – the school stopped doing repairs and upgrades as soon as they knew the school was going to move to Gahanna – but it was comfortable, sort of like an old pair of loafers. You are probably aware that the Gahanna campus of the “new” Academy ( as we called it then) has grown in sim- ilar ways, if perhaps more cohesively and at least with a master plan and a unifying architecture. It didn’t really matter that the old place was run down; we were there to get an education. And did we ever. The teachers I remember best are the ones that were the toughest – the ones that demanded the most of me. I learned how to write in Middle School. David Smith and George Bown taught English in seventh and eighth grade, respectively. We had to write something – we called it a composition – virtually every weekend. I would put mine off until Sunday evening ( without exception, as I recall), but somehow through all of those compositions and the feedback I received, I learned how to write. In college ( Princeton) and graduate school (Stanford), I never shied away from communicating in writing; it was always something I knew I could do. And in my 35-plus year professional career, I have been called on many times: “Give it to Hoster to write – he’s great at communicating in writing.” People assume that I must have learned how to write at the fancy-schmancy universities I attended. Not true. I learned it in middle school from my teach- ers at the Academy. Reunion Buddies:
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A c a d e m y M a g a z i n e I also learned to love math at the Academy. In seventh grade, it was Dute Jones. He was a stickler for doing prob- lems methodically. I still use the algebra I learned in middle school and high school to solve the occasional problem at work.
My favorite course at the Academy was calculus, which I took as a senior. Perhaps because it was the first time that math met the physical world. The teacher was Dana Whiting, who was, well, eccentric. I am telling you all of this, Julia, not to reminisce ( although I enjoy this) but to give you a sense that the teach- ers who are teaching you now – indeed your entire Academy experience – will have a profound effect on you for the rest of your life. Those compositions that you struggle with on a weekly basis will make you the go-to person when something needs to be written well; when your cross-functional team needs leadership to synthesize a particularly complex situation, they will turn to you because you are good at analyzing issues; when the non-profit group where you volunteer needs new leadership, they will turn to you because you are comfortable leading small groups. Athletics was a big part of my Academy experience. I was not a particularly gifted athlete, and I matured late; I remember weighing 115 pounds as a freshman football player. But I swam on the swim team all four years, becom- ing co-captain as a senior, and I ran track as a senior ( once I finally grew tall enough to clear a hurdle). Being at the Academy, you pretty much just showed up and were welcomed onto the team. That meant that everyone had the op- portunity to experience the joys and trials of athletic competition: the teamwork, the exhaustion of endless work- outs or practices, the excitement of winning, and the disappointment of losing. What I said about athletics – the small size of the school allowed one to participate almost irrespective of your tal- ent level – can be said of other extracurricular activities. My other favorite activity was Glee Club, in which I sang baritone. We had a darn good Glee Club under Fred Eisenberger. I was never the kind that was going to read music, but I learned a lot about music and musical notation, and learned to appreciate four-part harmonies. It was a real treat to participate in Glee Club concerts, which we gave twice a year. I participated in a couple other activities: I was an assistant editor of the Academy Life, and I was a class officer. Neither of those took all that much time. Come to think of it, I am not sure where I found the time to do everything. I am the third of four boys. My brothers – David ’63, Jay ’65 and Frank ’73 – graduated from the Academy, too. Jay and Frank still live in Columbus, and two of my nephews, Max Hoster ’09 and Clay Hoster ’10, are currently in the Upper School. My two cousins, Steve Hoster ’60 and Ted Hoster ’62, also graduated from the Academy. My fa- ther, Bud Hoster, attended the Academy, although he graduated from St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire. So you can see that the Academy is a family affair for us. I graduated from the Academy in 1968, so I was at the Academy for the “tumultuous” sixties. While I was there, the Academy underwent some important changes. The school started to expand its boundaries to include students from Central Ohio communities outside of the traditional Bexley and Upper Arlington suburbs. We also accepted the first two African-Americans in to the school, both in my class. The Academy has become a lot bigger since I left; the graduation pictures I see now look like a cast of thousands. We had fewer than 50 kids in my class throughout high school. I believe that there were 39 in my graduating class. By the time we graduated, it was a pretty strong class. Out of the 39 kids in my class, we sent one to Harvard, two to Yale, two to Princeton, one to Penn, one to Dartmouth, one to Williams and one to Amherst. As I said, it was a smart class. Attending the Academy, indeed growing up in Central Ohio, leads to lifelong friendships. This may be hard to believe – with your entire life in front of you, surely you will meet more interesting people than the bozos in your cur- rent Academy class, right? But going through the Academy experience creates ties that are hard to break. You are lucky indeed if you have more than a handful of people whom you can call “good friends.” I have one of those from my Academy class – Ted Coons ’68. Ted has been a lifelong Academy person. Two of his kids graduated from the Academy some time ago; his daughter Margaret ’10 is currently a junior at the Academy. I will be staying with Ted when I come to visit Columbus for this reunion. Ted and his wife would not have it any other way. Sadly, another one of my friends from the Academy was Marc Westwater ’68, who passed away almost 10 years ago. I am not sure that I am the best person to speak to the various traditions we had at the Academy. Because we didn’t necessarily think of them as traditions – that’s just the way things were at the Academy. We were expected to wear a coat and tie every day, and we did. To be honest, most of the coats and ties in the school were pretty ratty. Our parents didn’t really feel like spending a lot of money on clothing that was going to get pretty beat up in the course
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A c a d e m y M a g a z i n e of a year. And we were all growing like weeds, so it could have been an expensive proposition to keep an Academy boy in a new coat and tie at all times. I think every coat and tie in the school was a hand-me-down. While 40 years is a long time between my Academy experience and yours, I would like to think that we actu- ally have a lot in common in our two experiences: a school that is dedicated to learning, small classes, a huge range of opportunities to experiment with many different things. You and I both read books and we both solve math problems with pencil and paper. Still, it may be worthwhile enumerating some of the things that you have that we did not:
• No word processing. We wrote our essays in long hand for the most part. Important papers were typed, after you wrote your draft in long hand. No composing at a keyboard the way I am now. And no straight typing ( the way I am now), with words automatically wrapping around lines; we had to do a carriage return after a little bell told you that you were getting near the end of a line. Did I mention no spell checking? • No calculators. Arithmetic was done by hand. • No Internet. Research was done in the library, looking through endless books. No search engines back then. • No track. For practice, we ran around an oval laid down in a single white line around the football field. My senior year, the spring was unusually dry. What had been a grassy part of the athletic field turned parched and dried to hard Central Ohio clay. We might as well have been running on asphalt. I had shin splints so bad that I could not walk after my races. • No girls. They came to the Academy much later. • No soccer; no wrestling; no cross country. We pretty much stuck to the basic sports: football, basketball, baseball and so on. I am trying to think of connections that we share at the Academy. Sadly, none of the teachers who were there and taught me are still around. Bob Kirk ’67 was at the Academy the year ahead of me and Tim Hildreth ’69 was a year behind me. I was taught by both John Detrick ’53 and Kevin Morrin, but both of them recently retired, per- haps before you arrived at the Academy. I have lived in Northern California for the past 20 years, but I think of the Academy often. I have two daugh- ters, ages 21 and 16. We live in Palo Alto, which is a wonderful community that would remind you of Bexley or Upper Arlington, with mature trees, sidewalks, street lamps and attractive if modest houses. Palo Alto is perhaps best known for being home to Stanford University, which is walking distance from our house. This letter has become much longer than I intended it to be. But I was inspired in part to put some real effort into it by knowing that your grandfather is Jack Chester. One of the great things about Columbus is the inter-re- lationships that develop – your neighbor is also your attorney; your cousin married a girl you used to date; you see people at church who are also your customers at work; your kids go to school with the kids of someone you play golf with on the weekends. Of course, the Academy is woven into many of these relationships. Your grandfather hired a friend of mine many years ago when he was going through a bout with depression. Working at Chester Hoffman gave him a job to go to five days a week, a paycheck and relationships that were important as he worked on a re- covery. He is now a strong member of the Central Ohio com- munity. I will always be grateful for what your grandfather did those many years ago. And now I am writing his grand- daughter, who is my Academy buddy for reunions. As you can tell, Julia, I feel as if the Academy gave me a terrific education, and a real boost to becoming a successful employee, leader, parent, volunteer and citizen. I do not doubt that the Academy continues to do that for its current students. You are lucky to be there. Tom Hoster ’68
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A c a d e m y M a g a z i n e H A L L OF FA M E Maxwell Stevenson ’95 was a standout performer in football, wrestling and track during his career at Columbus Academy. On October 10, 2008, he be- came the 23rd inductee into CA’s Athletic Hall of Fame. • “I truly felt honored,” said Stevenson about the induction event during Reunion Weekend. “It was great to see people like Jim Stahl and some of my old friends after all these years. I just really enjoy it and appreciated it.” • In football, he was a First Team All-Ohio linebacker and the team’s Most Valuable Player both his junior and senior sea- sons. As a junior, when he was named Offensive Back of the Year, he also went on to place fifth in the state heavyweight wrestling division, which earned him more all-state honors. He was the squad’s Most Valuable Wrestler his last two years as well as a district and sectional champion and two-time state qualifier. • “My proudest high school accomplishment was probably placing at states in wrestling,” he said. “Wrestling wasn’t necessarily what I was best at, but it was the only sport I really had to work at, so it meant a lot to me.” • In track, Stevenson won the district title in the 100-meter race as a sophomore and was named all- state following his junior campaign. He was honored as the track squad’s Most Valuable Athlete both those years. • Stevenson matriculated to Stanford Uni- versity, where he was the starting fullback for three seasons. His collegiate career included an appearance in the 1995 Liberty Bowl and a victory in the 1996 Sun Bowl. He currently works for Franklin County Children Services. Maxwell Stevenson ’95 A t h l e t i c H a l l o f F a m e
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A c a d e m y M a g a z i n e Dear Fellow Alumni, It has been a very busy and productive fall for the Alumni Association. We have welcomed a new Alumni Scholar to campus (who we will profile in the next issue), hosted a very successful Reunion Week- end, inducted an alumnus into the Athletic Hall of Fame (see page 17) and gathered for our annual tail- gate before an Ohio State game. Please join us at an alumni event soon, especially if it has been a while since we’ve seen you. And as always, if you have any alumni-related input or news, please contact me, Stephen Wittmann ’67, at alumni@columbusacademy.org. Reunion Weekend Last year, the Alumni Association moved Reunion Weekend back to the fall and we were rewarded once again with perfect autumn weather. Many thanks to everyone who attended and who made it such a wonderful weekend of events. Please see pages 12-16 for more details and photos from the festivities and be sure to check out the complete online photo galleries at www.columbusacademy.org.
This year’s Alumni Holiday Luncheon will be held on Thursday, December 18. Please join us at the Athletic Club of Columbus as we present the Distinguished Alumnus Award to Charles (Rocky) Saxbe ’65, who has established himself as one of the state’s top litigators. He also served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, ran for Ohio Attorney General in 1982 and commanded a Marine infantry pla- toon during the Vietnam War. The reception will begin at 11:30 a.m. with lunch served at noon. Watch for your invitation in the mail. You can also register at CA’s interactive online alumni community (http://alumni.columbusacademy.org). I strongly urge you not to miss this opportunity to see Academy friends, classmates and current/former teachers. Farewell to Alumni Relations Director Meredith Levine ’99 Download 375.42 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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